...is there a way of also getting pictures exported ? When I tried this, there was an (a sort of) image link in the image property fields, but they didn't correspond to any actual image files, and there were no pictures in the VPP directories (I viewed all picture files with miniature pictures in Explorer). The images were stored in an Image type property.

Now - the reason may be that the pictures were not stored in page folders, they were in a subdirectory under /Global/. Correct ?

...and - is there any possibility of exporting images that are not part of a xhtml field ? Is it possible to export and import file structures, or at least have files stored in a corresponding directory structure in destintion site ?